World developement, the internet and making statistics fun

[matgb]

Take twenty minutes out. Put aside the time. Watch this:
TED | Talks | Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen (video):

With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world" using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation.

So very cool. And I think he's right; we have all the data we need, we just can't access it and don't know how to use it.

Look out for the bit where China jumps up on the US.

Comments

[matgb]

Yeah, but there's a big part of me that looks forward to being able to tell people to piss off and do their research knowing that it should be fairly easy. Debating with clueless morons is never fun.

It will instead switch to debating with morons who think their interpretation of the numbers is the Only!True!Way! Ah well.

(aside: the Recent Comments page on LJ got me here, email notification didn't arrive...)